Innovation Hub
An Excellence Hub is a place that facilitates new ideas and helps to create an innovative ecosystem for e-learning, networking, community engagement with partners, innovation stories, and job opportunities.
iHub offers an interactive multilevel platform to engage a new way of working remotely – providing:
The SEHUB will facilitate dialogue by organizing live discussions and roundtables to help users boost their confidence speak up and act appropriately.
webinars
accelerator
coaching
mentoring activities
legal & marketing advice
support of helpdesk
How will it work
The system is able to automatically suggest solutions, challenges, vacant positions in a particular incubator or accelerator, funding & partnership opportunities to a particular user based on his interest, profile, and interactions on the portal while ensuring smooth accessibility to resources.
Through the personnel dashboard, users will be able to create projects, manage resources, and fine-tune their contributions on the portal or track the progress of interactions & possible agreements.
All findings and outputs will be interlinked across several online modules inside iHub as well as external platforms (SEUHub will determine additional paths to improve the features and usability).
A spider algorithm will gather automatically info from existing sources. The smart cross-linkage feature helps automate reports and tools and enhances the user’s experience, accordingly, it will be adapted dynamically per user needs and the context change (User-preferences customization).
What may be included
Dissemination tool as a Social Hub to widespread labeled best practices, news, activities, and outputs while allowing stakeholders to share relevant best practices
Marketplace – as a repository and match-making online tool to create a ‘virtual marketplace for innovation’ facilitating wide interactions between technology users and technology producers in different sectors, based on partners’ experience
Innovators’ wizard will guide users on the matchmaking tool and investment explorer gadget which will be developed to inform & enhance interactions
Matchmaking & brokerage service will allow intensive and continuous matchmaking.
Solutions section – open innovation dimension allow users to post project profiles, future ideas for collaboration (challenges), solutions and interact accordingly. Both, challenges and solutions will be also validated, profiled and the later classified
Job bank – a repository of employment (& freelance) opportunities oriented toward Startups and SMEs with a particular focus on tech development or Tech-enabled startups and especially oriented to younger audiences
How will it be implemented in the contribution with SITES
SITES features different levels of users’ profiles with different privileges while each has relevant access & tools.
Integration with social media and mobile applications.
The design involves grasping the generated outputs of stakeholders (universities, research centers, incubators, and entrepreneurship centers) while enabling User-generated content for a continuous sustainable feeding process of the online platform.
Knowledge repository for dissemination as a valued service.